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36th Venice International Film Festival
The 36th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 5 September 1979. There was no jury because from 1969 to 1979 the festival was not competitive. Films premiered * ''Le passe-montagne'' by Jean-François Stévenin (France) * ''La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua'' by Assia Djebar (Algeria) * '' Autumn Marathon'' by Georgiy Daneliya (Soviet Union) * ''The Strangling'' by Kaneto Shindô (Japan) * '' Saint Jack'' by Peter Bogdanovich (France) Awards *FIPRESCI Prize **''Le passe-montagne'' (Jean-François Stévenin) **''La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua'' (Assia Djebar) **Honorable Mention: ''Le vieil Anaï'' ( Jean Rouch) *Pasinetti Award **Best Film: ''Autumn Marathon'' (Georgiy Daneliya) and ''Saint Jack'' (Peter Bogdanovich) **Best Actor: Yevgeny Leonov (''Autumn Marathon'') **Best Actress: Nobuko Otowa (''The Strangling'') *Pietro Bianchi Award **'' Cesare Zavattini'' References External links * Venice Film Festival 1979 Awardson IMDb {{Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Jack (film)
''Saint Jack'' is a 1979 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich based on the 1973 novel ''Saint Jack''. Ben Gazzara stars as Flowers in the film. The film also features Denholm Elliott and George Lazenby. Plot Jack, a likeable, freewheeling American pimp in Singapore, goes to the airport to pick up a British accountant for his Chinese 'boss', whom he only associates with to cover his real business, pimping, from the authorities. He takes William, an uptight and nervy English accountant, to his hotel, then to a bar where British expats mingle. He meets a john, who he takes to a brothel, together with William, who only really wants a game of squash. Returning, they are chased by Chinese triads, who resent Jack. The next day they find one of Jack's Chinese friends has been murdered, as a warning. As the plot unfolds, Jack is revealed to be a man of moral fibre and good character, who is struggling to plot the course of his life in Singapore, where his expat buddies are invariably drunk a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s In Venice
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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